''Mountain Soul II'' is the sixteenth and most recent studio album by American
country music
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singer
Patty Loveless
Patty Loveless (born Patricia Lee Ramey, January 4, 1957) is an American country music singer. She began performing in her teenaged years before signing her first recording contract with MCA Records' Nashville division in 1985. While her first ...
. The album was released on September 29, 2009.
It is a follow-up to her previous album, ''
Mountain Soul
''Mountain Soul'' is the eleventh album of original recordings by Patty Loveless. The album was recorded between January and March 2001 and was released on June 26 in the United States. It first charted on the ''Billboard'' Top Country Albums cha ...
'', released in 2001.
Four of the album's 15 songs, "Half Over You"; "
Blue Memories"; "Feelings of Love"; and "A Handful of Dust", were previously recorded by Loveless on earlier albums. "Big Chance" was also previously included in the same form on 2005's
Dreamin' My Dreams.
"
Busted" was released as the album's lead-off single in September 2009. The album won the
Grammy Award
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for
Best Bluegrass Album
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at the
2011 Grammy Awards in
Los Angeles
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.
Track listing
# "
Busted" (
Harlan Howard
Harlan Perry Howard (September 8, 1927 – March 3, 2002) was an American songwriter, principally in country music. In a career spanning six decades, Howard wrote many popular and enduring songs, recorded by a variety of different artists.
C ...
) – 3:25
# "Fools Thin Air" (
Guy Clark
Guy Charles Clark (November 6, 1941 – May 17, 2016) was an American folk and country singer-songwriter and luthier. He released more than 20 albums, and his songs have been recorded by other artists, including Jerry Jeff Walker, Jimmy Buffet ...
,
Rodney Crowell
Rodney Crowell (born August 7, 1950) is an American musician, known primarily for his work as a singer and songwriter in country music. Crowell has had five number one singles on Hot Country Songs, all from his 1988 album '' Diamonds & Dirt''. ...
) – 3:24
# "A Handful of Dust" (
Tony Arata
Anthony Michael Arata (born October 10, 1957) is an American singer-songwriter. His best known song is " The Dance", a number-one U.S. country hit for Garth Brooks in 1990 which was nominated at the 33rd Grammy Awards for Best Country Song. He al ...
) – 3:05
# "Half Over You" (
Karen Staley
Karen Staley (born in Weirton, West Virginia) is an American country music singer-songwriter.
Staley was raised in Georgetown, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, and was inspired to write songs after reading through the hymnals at her local church. S ...
) – 3:25
# "Prisoner's Tears" (
Mike Henderson
Mike Henderson (born in Independence, Missouri) is an American singer-songwriter.
Career
Early career
Henderson was an original member of blues group the Bel Airs when they formed in Missouri in 1981. They released an album, ''Need Me a Car'' ...
,
Mark Irwin
Mark Irwin (born August 7, 1950) is a Canadian cinematographer.
He was born in Toronto, Ontario, and studied political science at the University of Waterloo and filmmaking at York University.
He is widely known for his early collaborations ...
,
Wally Wilson) – 3:56
# "
Working on a Building" (traditional) – 2:52
# "Friends in Gloryland" (traditional) – 1:25
# "(We Are All) Children of Abraham" (Patty Loveless,
Emory Gordy Jr.
Emory Lee Gordy Jr. (born December 25, 1944) is an American musician, songwriter and music producer. A former member of Emmylou Harris' backing band The Hot Band, he is best known for his association with country singer Patty Loveless, to whom ...
) – 2:24
# "Big Chance" (Loveless, Gordy) – 2:53
# "When the Last Curtain Falls" (Gordy, Jim Rushing) – 3:49
# "
Blue Memories" (
Karen Brooks
Karen Brooks (born April 30, 1954) is an American country music singer and songwriter who is best known for a series of singles recorded by Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash, Patty Loveless, Tanya Tucker, Russell Smith, David Allen Coe, Crystal ...
,
Paul Kennerley
Paul Kennerley (born 1948) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer working in the American contemporary country music industry.
Biography
Paul Kennerley was born in Hoylake, Cheshire (now Merseyside), England in 1948. In 1 ...
) – 2:47
# "You Burned the Bridge" (
Jon Randall
Jon Randall Stewart (born February 17, 1969) is an American producer, songwriter, and musician.
His career began as a guitarist for Emmylou Harris' Nash Ramblers with whom he won his first Grammy for their ''Live at the Ryman'' album in 1992. B ...
) – 4:19
# "Bramble and the Rose" (Barbara Keith) – 2:54
# "Feelings of Love" (
Kostas) – 3:15
# "Diamond in My Crown" (Kennerley,
Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter and musician. She has released dozens of albums and singles over the course of her career and has won 14 Grammys, the Polar Music Prize, and numerous other honors, including ...
) – 2:45
Personnel
*
Mike Auldridge
Mike Auldridge (December 30, 1938 – December 29, 2012) was an American Dobro player and a founding member of the bluegrass group The Seldom Scene. The ''New York Times'' described Auldridge as "one of the most distinctive dobro players in the ...
–
dobro
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The Dobro was originally ...
* Barry Bales –
upright bass
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* Tom Britt –
electric guitar
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* Mike Bub – upright bass
* Jason Carter –
fiddle
A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including classical music. Although in many cases violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, th ...
*
Stuart Duncan
Stuart Duncan (born April 14, 1964) is an American bluegrass musician who plays the fiddle, mandolin, guitar, and banjo.
Life
Duncan was born in Quantico, Virginia, and raised in Santa Paula, California, where he played in the school band. He ...
– fiddle,
mandolin
A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...
*
Vince Gill
Vincent Grant Gill (born April 12, 1957) is an American country music singer, songwriter and musician. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman of the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s and as a solo artist b ...
–
acoustic guitar
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, background vocals
*
Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter and musician. She has released dozens of albums and singles over the course of her career and has won 14 Grammys, the Polar Music Prize, and numerous other honors, including ...
– background vocals
* Tim Hensley – background vocals
*
Rebecca Lynn Howard
Rebecca Lynn Howard (born April 24, 1979) is an American country music artist. She has charted seven singles on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Songs charts, and has released three studio albums. Her highest-charting single, "Forgive", peaked at N ...
– acoustic guitar, background vocals
*
Rob Ickes
Rob Ickes hymes with "bikes"is an American dobro (resonator guitar) player, born 1967 in San Francisco, California, United States. Ickes moved to Nashville in 1992 and joined the contemporary bluegrass band Blue Highway as a founding member in ...
– dobro
*
Carl Jackson
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–
banjo
The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...
, background vocals
*
Butch Lee
Alfred "Butch" Lee Jr. (born December 5, 1956) is a Puerto Rican retired professional basketball player. Lee was the first Puerto Ricans, Puerto Rican and first Latin American-born athlete to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA), acc ...
–
pump organ
The pump organ is a type of free-reed organ that generates sound as air flows past a vibrating piece of thin metal in a frame. The piece of metal is called a reed. Specific types of pump organ include the reed organ, harmonium, and melodeon. T ...
*
Patty Loveless
Patty Loveless (born Patricia Lee Ramey, January 4, 1957) is an American country music singer. She began performing in her teenaged years before signing her first recording contract with MCA Records' Nashville division in 1985. While her first ...
– lead vocals, background vocals
*
Del McCoury
Delano Floyd McCoury (born February 1, 1939) is an American bluegrass musician. As leader of the Del McCoury Band, he plays guitar and sings lead vocals along with his two sons, Ronnie McCoury and Rob McCoury, who play mandolin and banjo respec ...
– acoustic guitar, background vocals
*
Rob McCoury
Rob McCoury is an American bluegrass musician who plays banjo. He is the son of bluegrass musician Del McCoury, and is best known for his work with the Del McCoury Band and the Travelin' McCourys.
Biography
Rob McCoury was born in York County, ...
– banjo
*
Ronnie McCoury
Ronnie McCoury is an American mandolin player, singer, and songwriter (born March 16, 1967). He is the son of bluegrass musician Del McCoury, and is best known for his work with the Del McCoury Band
and the Travelin' McCourys.
Biography
Ronnie Mc ...
– mandolin,
mandola
The mandola (US and Canada) or tenor mandola (Ireland and UK) is a fretted, stringed musical instrument. It is to the mandolin what the viola is to the violin: the four double courses of strings tuned in fifths to the same pitches as the viola ...
, background vocals
* Carmella Ramsey – background vocals
*
Jon Randall
Jon Randall Stewart (born February 17, 1969) is an American producer, songwriter, and musician.
His career began as a guitarist for Emmylou Harris' Nash Ramblers with whom he won his first Grammy for their ''Live at the Ryman'' album in 1992. B ...
– mandolin, background vocals
* Deanie Richardson – fiddle
* Kerlan Spur –
percussion
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...
*
Bryan Sutton
Bryan Sutton is an American musician. Primarily known as a flatpicking acoustic guitar player, Sutton also plays mandolin, banjo, ukulele, and electric guitar. He also sings and writes songs.
Biography Early career
Sutton's grandfather and ...
– banjo, acoustic guitar, mandolin
* Guthrie Trapp – electric guitar
*
Rhonda Vincent
Rhonda Lea Vincent (born July 13, 1962) is an American bluegrass singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.
Vincent's music career began when she was a child in her family's band The Sally Mountain Show, and it has spanned more than four de ...
– background vocals
Chart performance
References
External links
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2009 albums
Patty Loveless albums
Albums produced by Emory Gordy Jr.
Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album
Bluegrass albums